SOVIET RUSSIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 May 1924, Page 3

SOVIET RUSSIA.

[“The Times’’ Service.] ANG LO-SOV lET C OX KISH ENCE. .'K-j?eived this day ut 8 n.m.) I.OX DON, May l(i. A communique in connection with the plenary meeting ol the A ngloSoviet Conference states tlie British excluded from the scope of the conference the peace treaties whereto other countries were co-signatories without consulting the latter. (Questions were discussed concerning the claims hy British subjects in Russia since the revolution and inter Governmental claims whereon a divergence of opinion resulted. The conference adjourned to afford the Sovieters an opportunity of studying the British proposals and remeets on the 20th.

TROTSKY’S MILITARIS.M. t'Rnooivcd this ilnv at 0.15 a.m.) LONDON, .Viay In. A Riga correspondent states the Soviet leaders who assure foreign pressmen of their peaceful motives and explain tluit the Soviet military preparations arc solely of a defensive nature, adopt an entirely different tone when addressing select gatherings of their own followers. Trotsky at present is trying his hardest to instil tinmartial spirit into the Red Army, b.v almost daily speeches in.which he unfolds vistas of great, glorious, revolutionary wars, particularly in the East. One of the most striking of his recent speeches, was delivered at Moscow military academy, in which he unfolded a plan for organising all Russia’s peacetime industries on a war footing. lie said:—“We must regard the whole of our economic life from a military standpoint. This applies particularly to tinchemical industry, which we must systematically organise for chemical warfare.”